Band Quotes
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When you're in a young band for the first time, geographically you're in the same place and you tend to go out and socialize. You play more shows, you spend more time together. You're a unit. As you grow older, inevitably you develop a life outside the band. I think it would be tragic if you didn't.
Robert Smith
Siouxsie and the Banshees
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I've gotta be the only father begging his son to leave a six-figure job to go play in a rock n' roll band!
Butch Trucks
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When you're looking for a band name, I know it sounds weird, but everything you look at, everything you observe and read, you kind of think, 'Man, maybe that could be our band name.'
Dave Haywood
Lady Antebellum
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Doug Aldrich and I grew up in Philadelphia together, and Doug used to come and see a cover band that I was in. He was, like, 15 or 16, and I was, like, 18, 19.
John Corabi
Mötley Crüe
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My favorite band is probably The Cure. We can throw Talking Heads in there too, I listen to them a lot. But The Cure.
Analeigh Tipton
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The shows are so different from each other, depending on whether I play with my band, Nine Stories, other musicians, an orchestra, only one or two members of my band.
Lisa Loeb
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It's valid that the Strokes and the Pleased have been influenced by some of the same bands. But it's invalid in the sense that we listen to the Strokes and try to sounds like them. I think that they are a good band.
Joanna Newsom
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For us, all we care about is maintaining what we do as a band.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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My very first gig was with the Sex Pistols, and it was also our first-ever gig. It was a very short set, and it was at Saint Martins College of Art in 1975. We were opening up for a band called Bazooka Joe, and their bass player at the time was Adam Ant, who went on to form Adam and the Ants.
Steve Jones
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When you're in a band and there's five of you, you have to accommodate five people in every song.
Noel Gallagher
Oasis
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I think every band I'm a part of fulfills something the others don't, so I'm pretty convinced I need all of them.
Colin Marston
Behold... The Arctopus
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I'm a band leader and substitute teacher, and then one day they bring me into a music class, and I'm like, 'Wait a minute, I know this stuff.' And the principal is like, 'Just throw the video in and call it a day,' and I'm like, 'That's not good enough. I want these kids to know what it's like to have a gig and all that kind of stuff.'
Craig Robinson
